Mozart Died Writing This Score: What It Reveals About His Creative Process

Get unique classical music shirts and merch from Amadeus Apparel! (https://amadeusapparel.com/PIANOCURIO) (affiliate link) Mozart's Requiem manuscript, only partially complete at the composer's sudden death at age 35 in 1791, is one of the most scrutinized yet misunderstood documents in music history. The score parts passed through several hands, being completed by three different musicians at various times. The most famous version heard today is a completion by Mozart's assistant, Süssmayr, who made innumerable creative choices to bring the unfinished Requiem to life. This video features a modern facsimile of Mozart's manuscript to introduce the fascinatingly layered composition, completion, and reception history of Mozart's Requiem, which has latched itself onto the public imagination through stories, plays, and movies over the centuries. Support the channel (includes affiliate links): Buy me a coffee: (https://buymeacoffee.com/pianocurio) Get 10% off music merchandise from Amadeus Apparel with code "PIANOCURIO": (https://amadeusapparel.com/PIANOCURIO) Main sources: Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus. Requiem K. 626: Facsimile of the Autograph Score in the Austrian National Library. Edited by Günter Brosche. Foreword by Christoph Wolff. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 2015. Keefe, Simon P. Mozart's Requiem: Reception, Work, Completion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Audio excerpts of Mozart's Requiem © Chœur des Marais, Villefranche sur Saône, Fr: (https://www.classicals.de/mozart-requiem) 00:00 Intro 04:52 The facsimile 10:14 The fragment 13:45 Amadeus Apparel (video sponsor) 14:22 The commission 16:21 Mozart's design and models 22:45 The completion 27:28 Critical debates 29:12 The Requiem legend